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dogbane
[ dawg-beyn, dog- ]
noun
- any of several plants of the genus Apocynum, especially A. androsaemifolium, yielding an acrid milky juice and having an intensely bitter root.
dogbane
/ ˈdɒɡˌbeɪn /
noun
- any of several North American apocynaceous plants of the genus Apocynum, esp A. androsaemifolium, having bell-shaped white or pink flowers: thought to be poisonous to dogs
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Vinca, ving′ka, n. a genus of woody herbaceous plants of the dogbane family, the periwinkles.
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Allied to the milkweed is another plant, the dogbane (Apocynum), which has a similar trick of entrapping its insect friends.
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Apocynum androsmifolium (spreading dogbane), Kineo (Bradford).
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The larva of this insect feeds on most of the different kinds of milkweed (Asclepias), and also upon dogbane (Apocynum).
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The small pink flowers of the spreading dogbane may be found all through the summer, often upon our driest hillsides.
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